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Re:Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon by minimaxir on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:45PM (#21805075)
Previous discussion on the project itself (although a few things have changed since then): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022

Impressively, the Patreon for the project just hit $8k/mo. https://www.patreon.com/AIDungeon

Re:Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon by GuiA on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:35PM (#21807491)
> Impressively, the Patreon for the project just hit $8k/mo.

Costing him $10k/day to run though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879

Re:Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon by cyorir on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:06PM (#21807858)
Not anymore. A peer-to-peer network was used to avoid the massive network egress costs, while the creator worked on a cost-efficient hosted app.

https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1203843111287316485

https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-32193930

Re:Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon by leeter on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:55PM (#21807724)
Check the follow on messages to that they've gone peer to peer and it's no longer costing money to host.

https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1204064712394076160

Re:Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon by Tenoke on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:54PM (#21807710)
Not anymore.